. Hatcher Bros was a haulage firm based next door at No 9 Tanner Street.

Thomas Hatcher sitting just outside the entrance to Tanner House c 1960.

Hatchers Transport,only picture I have found of a Hatchers Lorry,

Post by tedyboyHatcher's were an old established haulage company. I think they were based in Tanner Street. When I was very young (late 1940's) I remember seeing their hoses being exercised on the bombsites around Whites Grounds here my grandparents lived. The horses would be released a few yards from the open ground and would run toward it creating sparks with their shoes on the cobbled street adjacent to The Yorkshire Grey pub. Another fond memory was that, as lorries began to replace horse drawn transport, the lorry drivers would help the horses up the long climb onto Tower Bridge by settling their bull bar against the wagon's tailboard and sharing the weight. Hatcher's were still operating at least into the sixties plying their trade in the London docks.

Post by gabbler1955Hatcher's yard had an entrance in both Whites Grounds and Tanner Street. I lived in Whites Grounds Estate and you could see through to Tanner Street. I often saw the horse-drawn "flat bed" trucks going in and out as a boy. They had stables just past the entrance to the park on the left in Bermondsey Street (past the row of shops with Dobsons bakers on the corner of Tanner St / Bermondsey St) going towards Long Lane. I think that they had stables just past Nicki Nastri's in Morocco Street / Leathermarket St as well.

Post by Trevboy 2011.I remember Hatchers did they start out in bermondsey street in a small yard, I recall stories from my mum about Tommy Hatcher he bought out my grandads business carting coal by horse and cart. the story goes that my grandad would not believe that if you like the horseless carraige would not take over the old horse and cart so he sold up. I also believe that Hatchers later became part of the Hays Wharf set up. Please can you throw any light on this I believe my grandads name was Jim Smith.

The Hatcher business was started by my ancestor, Thomas Hatcher in the 1800's. It passed down through the family to my father and uncle who ran the business until they sold up on retirement in about 1980.

It traded from its main office and depot in Tanner Street with additional lorry parking on a bomb site in Whites Grounds, a stables (later converted to warehousing) in Long Lane and a further yard, stables and loft in Bermondsey Street.

Hi David, welcome to the site. Thank you for the information and pictures, they are really great and for myself and many others on site, they will bring back a lot of memories. I can still remember hanging on the back of the horse and carts and being shouted at.

I have an oil painting off 2 grey shires pulling the Hatchers red cart. I found this thread while researching the name. I see David Hatcher you are a relative. My relatives were tanners in Bermondsey and could have probably used the transport for their goodsAlfred Lafone (13 February 1821 – 26 April 1911) of Hanworth Park, Feltham, Middlesex, was a British leather merchant and Conservative Party politician in London. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bermondsey from 1886 to 1892, and from 1895 to 1900.

In the sixties I drove for Brooks & Walker. We had several ex Hatchers drivers from the horses. They said one of the reasons the horses were kept so long ,was to ease the obtaining of B licences which were difficult to obtain at that time. Hatchers would claim a new B licence because they were losing a pair of horses but there was no official check on the number of horses in use or if any were actually removed.